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Chapter 9- It's Unfathomable
DRACO POV
There is a place where after everything seemed so screwed up in my life, there is one place where I would feel better. A place where I could be alone and not having to deal with anyone else and now my place of solitude would be shared with Ginny Weasley.
I didn't even show my best friend, Blaise Zabini this place. Speaking of Blaise I haven't really had time to actually hang out with him since Katie Bell happened. But I don't want to intrude on their relationship, as long as he's happy I'm happy for him. I didn't even tell him that I'm friends with a Weasley. I'll tell him tonight. It doesn't really matter that Blaise and Katie are together because their families don't hold a grudge against each other, but for me and Ginny it's different. If my family knew I am even remotely associated with her, let's just say it won't be a pretty sight.
I lead her towards the Quidditch pitch to the area where they keep the brooms. She starts laughing at me for reasons I am unaware of. "Why are you laughing?" I ask her. She wipes a tear from her eye because she thinks it is so funny I led her down here. "Did you drag me all the way down here just so we could have a rematch? Oh. My. Gosh. I beat you already. Let it go now." "Actually, Weasley, I didn't drag you all the way down here just so I could have a rematch with you, we'll do that on some later date. I was going to show you something-" "What? To show me your awesome moves with what you could do with that broom of yours. Please, you're killing me right now," she manages to say in between her laughs. I stare at her confused, what the hell is she on about? "For your information, no I did not take you all the way here to show you my 'moves' as you so graciously put it. I was going to take you somewhere, that's why I went to get my broom." "Oh," is all she manages to get out. "On second thoughts maybe I won't anymore, you've ruined it with your silly remarks. I don't even know why I offered to show you in the first place. I'm going to go now-" "Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take this as a joke. I just assumed you were going to do those things. Let's go to wherever the place you wanted to take me." "It's too late for that." "You know you want to, besides you wouldn't have even brought it up in the first place." I don't budge and she says playfully, "You know you want to Draco," she says whilst poking me.
I don't know but it has something to do with her calling me Draco is when I finally give in. I smile is playing at my lips and she catches it. "You know you couldn't resist my persistence could you?" "Annoyance more like it," I say jokingly. "How rude," She says back pretending to look hurt. She was about to say something but she said she'll tell me when we arrive at the place. I get my broom and I say, "Well hop on. I haven't got all day." "Oh hush up. Patience is a virtue you know?" "Whatever just hurry up." "Why are you so eager? It's like we are going to miss something important. "Actually we are. You'll see why." She goes on the broom and wraps her arms tightly around my waist as if she is going to fall.
Then we are up soaring into the night sky. I decide I would make get back at her. I purposely lose height so that we are descending to the ground at alarming speed. Her grip tightens around my waist even more like she is holding on for dear life. As we were about to hit the ground I sharply go up again. "What are you doing? Were you trying to get us killed?" "No, I'm not that stupid." "Then what were you trying to achieve by doing that?" "Oh you know, just getting back at you." "That was so mean! We could've died." "I know how to fly you know. I've had experience in doing that. I wouldn't do that if I didn't know what I was doing." "Just don't do it again." "I can't promise you that, but I'll only do it when you're not around." "Whatever." "Just so you know the place I'm taking to you is very special to me and you are the first person that I'm going to share it with."
We fly up to the Astronomy Tower's roof and land there. The area where we are sitting on overlooks the whole of Hogsmeade. "Wait for it." I say to Ginny. "Wait for what?" she asks.
In the next second Hogsmeade lights up like beautiful candle lights, illuminating and glowing. The lights lit up in one area and it would slowly spread across the whole of Hogsmeade until every square inch is covered with rich colours of yellow. You would think it was morning because of that. I hear her gasp and say, "Oh, it's so beautiful, it breath taking. I can't even get the right word. It's unfathomable." "I know right? I didn't know if it was real. It was like I was imagining it. I came across this when I was flying at night and I decided to have a rest, here. I stumbled upon it accidently. I was about to go then those lights went up. I don't know how long I stayed up here for, but I know it was a pretty long time."
"And I thought you were dead inside. I couldn't have ever imagined a Malfoy actually liking beautiful things, it's unreal. You know what? I like you better when you're like this. Carefree, smiling, laughing. That's was what I wanted to talk about with you. In a matter of hours, you have drastically changed. I thought it would take longer, but boy was I wrong." "Well I guess you could say that. I'm not usually like this, obviously. But I don't know. It's something about you that makes me want to be that kind of person, you know?" "I think so. You don't hide away under your mask when you are with me or with Blaise. I want to see that more often, with other people around you." "You know that won't happen. I can't let that happen. You need to understand that, or I'll be ruined." "No one should have to live up to that. You have choices Draco. Everyone does, you just need to realise them and start being the person you truly are. The guy I saw today was definitely not the guy I see every other day." "It's not that I won't, it's that I can't. You wouldn't understand." "Then help me to. Even though you portray yourself as a bad person and other people do that, there's always good." "Do you really believe that? Once a person is rotten then won't be able to change. Plus, I can't really discuss that with you right at the moment. Trust me. If I tell you now, you wouldn't want to be associated with me anymore." "Do you really believe that? Maybe in some people they aren't able to change, but in you I see differently. You just have to see it for yourself. Remember the only person stopping you is yourself.
You can tell me when the time is right, I'll wait. Plus, we shouldn't rush this friendship too far. We'll take it slowly. Gosh, it sounds like I'm talking like we are in a relationship." She laughs awkwardly and I cough nervously. "We should go now." I say to her. "I want to stay longer but we can't. It always seems that beautiful things must come to an end." She disagrees with me. "How then?" I ask her. "I see beauty in everything that is good in life. What has been the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?" she asks me. I really don't know how to answer that question. For one, the view from here to Hogsmeade is unexplainable, but there is one other thing that shames it. I know what it is but I can't say it. There's a long silence before I answer her. "I'll get back to you on that."
GINNY POV
I never knew that Draco Malfoy had a different side of him. It was very overwhelming when I actually saw him laughing. It was like a new person transformed before my eyes. I never thought that it would be this easy to get the real Draco out. I thought of him as a challenge, like someone I couldn't get through to. But I haven't broken all those barriers yet. I can feel that he is hiding something and he doesn't want to tell me. I don't expect him to, we just became friends. We should get to know one another before we talk about more serious things. He'll tell me when he wants to; I don't want to push him.
I really thought for a moment that when we arrived at the Quidditch Pitch, for him to get his broom, that he wanted to have a rematch with me and show off his moves. But it wasn't for that, he wanted to show me a place that means very much to him and he decided that I would be the first person for him to share it with. He didn't even show his best friend, it's quite unusual but I guess it's his choice. When we get there, the place where we are sitting overlooks the whole of Hogsmeade. The view is spectacular but what made it even better were the lights. I have never seen anything more beautiful than that. I can't even explain it. It started in one area and slowly spread across the whole of Hogsmeade until everything was illuminated.
He tells me that what makes him be this kind of person is me. The Draco I saw today was because of me. I never thought I had that effect on him. But the Draco I see every other day is not that person I am seeing now. He can't be this good person. But I believe we all have choices but he just can't see it yet. He tells me that if he tells me then I wouldn't want to be associated with him. I don't know what, but I'm sure I can take it. I see some good in him; he's shown it to me today. But what stops him from doing that is his own self. He says that beautiful things always come to an end, I don't agree with him. Even though this lighting up of Hogsmeade won't last, there's always tomorrow and the day after that and so on. When I ask him what has been the most beautiful thing he has ever seen, he says, "I'll get back to you on that." He'll get back to me on that? "Well, whatever it is, just think that the beauty will never really go away. It's there and if you have positive thinking then it'll always remain with you. It won't come to an end. It won't leave you. Beauty is always there beneath the bad things life. The lights in Hogsmeade may end tonight, but there'll always, always be tomorrow."
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